Quotes of: Common-belief Keyword

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Traditional

If we don't accept any common beliefs, we can't exist in spacetime. But when we don't believe in age, at least we don't have to die because our numbers change. [...] When you don't believe in birthdays, the idea of aging turns a little foreign to you...

Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, an...

Plato: Letters to my Son

Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Surely it is the one who fears he is wrong who avoids criticism. The one who is sure he is right invites it. It only illuminates the strength of beliefs and makes them more available to others.

Epistemology: The Justification Of Belief

If you drop your beliefs, you drop your success. God's mighty people begin to fall even as achievers when they begin to drop the beliefs they pursue at first.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Don’t depend on others to fuel your self-belief. Develop your self-belief so that it becomes self-sustaining.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

A brick could be used to help define your rigid beliefs. I put my beliefs to bed, along with the hooker I rented for the night. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

I Don't Believe in Atheists

We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.

Rise of the Morningstar

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

Snow

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

Tana French

I learned late on in life that it was the beliefs about myself that dictated how I felt, how I thought and what actions I took, and to change my life for the better I just needed to change my beliefs.

Steven Aitchison

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Michael Shermer

Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can't control his anger and believes no one else is entitled to their own opinion or belie...

Mamie Thornbrue

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

The Common Law